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Sermon Outline

1. Examples of Money and its darker side
   1. Labor problems with Money: Slavery (Eccl 2:7, Gen 21:10, Ex 1:13, Dt 24:7)
   2. Sexual Problems with Money: Prostitution (Gen 38:16, Lev 19:29, Dt 23:18)
   3. Legislative & Judicial Problems with Money: Bribery (Ex 18:21, 23:8)
   4. Compassion Problems with Money: Taking advantage (Gen 23:9-16, 25:32, 2Ki 5:5, Gen 42-47)
   5. Faithfulness Problems with Money: Betrayal (Mt 26:15)
   6. Military problems with Money: Mercenaries (Judg 16:5, 1Ki 15:18-19, Esth 3:9)
   7. Contentment problems with Money:
      1. Workaholism
      2. Luxury (Lk 12:15-21)
2. some strong warnings in Scripture about people and their money
   1. Difficult to enter the kingdom of heaven for the wealthy (Mk 10:23)
   2. That money will be ad can be destroyed in a moment (Rev 18:17)
   3. That it is impossible to serve both God and money (Mt 6:24)
   4. A final verse (1Tim 6:10)
3. The Gospel at the Benediction (Lk 19:8)